- Username
- chemie
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Doctor with OCD here. Like mentioned before, med school is so busy that I didn’t have time to entertain the intrusive thoughts and definitely the compulsions. In fact was quite therapeutic. Now working 7 years out I have more time and battling with it more because of it but it never interferes with my career. Absolutely love and blessed to be in this career. Arguably a better doctor because of it!
Thank you so much for this! So helpful!!
I believe you can do it! ☺️ I’m in nursing school right now and it honestly distracts me from my thoughts. Nursing is my passion and if you’re truly passionate about being a doctor GO FOR IT!
Anyone can have any disorder. Doesn’t matter your occupation, gender, ethnicity, religion, sex, or sexuality.
Not a doctor but I'm in medical school right now. My OCD got bad but only at the end of the year. I passed. I have decided to take the year off to better cope with it - I also had a lot going on besides OCD that got in the way from me continuing but in the end. Yes it's possible. I was so busy - I didn't have time for OCD haha I had some bad days but made sure I was in contact with the therapist throughout the year.
I feel at some points, I had a little advantage because unlike some of my peers, I had gone through the ups and downs of being on a mental/emotional rollercoaster. Some students were new to all the overwhelming content that their anxiety got bad and they couldn't handle. So I guess you and only you can decide what you are ready for
Thank you all!!!!
I’m having a rough time rn. My parents both told me that they don’t think I could or should be a dr (I’m going to be a sr in college this year). They said that I have too many and too intense of problems to be one - I’ve got OCD, depression, and dermotillomania (skin picking). Normally, I brush things ppl say off pretty easily, but not w my parents. I love them and really care about their opinion. But it’s making me even more depressed, as one of the last things I was holding onto was the thought that I would be able to use my experiences to be an even better dr than I would have been before getting these things. I’ve been suicidal for a long time but I always told myself that I was going to get through this and use it to help ppl. But it’s tearing away my last shreds knowing that not even the ppl I care about the most think I can achieve my dreams. ?
Anyone got contamination ocd recovery stories? I heard this is the hardest form of OCD to overcome from my doctors and I feel honestly discouraged.
Ok so I've been posting about religious OCD and I've been freaking out about it for a while including thinking I done blasphemy against the holy Spirit, people been telling me that if I been really worried about it including overthinking that I did it means that I didn't do it, then my question got very curious and I got really really worried, especially when I'm overthinking about stuff and overthinking it's not my fan, I actually been trying to think going to a mental hospital or go to the doctors, But it hasn't been well, I've been overthinking about pretty much everything especially since May, especially asking people questions and me worrying about everything all over again, A lot of people have been worried or sick and tired of me posting about Christianity especially me overthinking about it, many people success me that I get some therapy, medicine, or even go to the mental hospital or the doctors, like I said it haven't been well, I did some research about it and said how most people with OCD dealt with it but they still require medication, My anxiety has been worse and worser, but I don't want to make my family upset, expectfully my Ma, cause she explains I'm fine, but people are really worried about me expectfuly on Facebook, should I go to the doctors???
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